Shuttle box for looms



Ap 934. w. H. BINETTE SHUTTLE BOX FOR LOOMS Filed Feb. 21, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet W/i Bin e238 Inventor April 10, 1934. w BlNETTE 1,954,063

SHUTTLE BOX FOR LOOMS Filed Feb. 21, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor Patented Apr. 10, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SHUTTLE BOX FOR LOOMS Willie H. Binette, Manchester, N. H., assignor of thirty-seven and. one-half per cent to Albert Lessard, and twenty-five per cent to Emile Lemelin, both of Manchester, N. H.

Application February 21, 1933, Serial No. 657,858

3 Claims. (01. 139-185) The present invention relates to new and use- The inner side of the front plate 5 has formed ful improvements in shuttle boxes for looms of therein longitudinally aligned channels 9 which the filling replenishing type and has for its pripermit channels 10 to be embossed or pressed into mary object to provide, in a manner as hereinaftthe lining 8, said channels 10 being opposed to the 60 er set forth, a shuttle box embodying a novel conchannel 3 when the shuttle 2 is in the box 1 for acstruction and arrangement through the medium commodating the filling. of which the old or spent filling will be prevented At an intermediate point, the front plate 5 is from being caught between the shuttle and the provided, in its inner side, with a cut out 11 with front wall of the box upon call for replenishment which the channels 9 and 1D communicate and and subsequently carried into the shed. which extends to the lower edge of said front 1 Other objects of the invention are to provide plate 5. The lining 8 is also provided with a cut a front plate for shuttle boxes of the aforemenout 12 which is substantially similar to the cut tioned character which will be simple in construcout 11 and which is in registry with said out out tion, strong, durable, highly efiicient and reliable 11. in use and which may be manufactured at low At the ends of the cut out 11, the front plate 5 cost. has formed therein openings 13 for the passage All of the foregoing and still further objects of tabs 14 which are integral with the lining 3. and advantages of the invention will become ap- The tabs 14 are secured, as at 15, on the outer, parent from a study of the following specification, or front, side of the plate 5 for retaining the intaken in connection with the accompanying termediate portions of the lining 8 tightly against drawings wherein like characters of reference said plate 5. designate corresponding parts throughout the With shuttle boxes in widespread use at presseveral views, and wherein: ent, it has been found that, during replenish- Figure 1 is a view in top plan of a shuttle box ment, the old or spent filling gets out of the opincluding a front plate in accordance with the posed channels provided therefor in the shuttle present invention. and the front plate of the box and binds be- Figure 2 is a view in side elevation of the front tween said shuttle and front plate to be subplate. sequently carried into the shed, resulting in de- Figure 3 is a view in vertical transverse section, fective cloth. With a front plate constructed in taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure 2. accordance with this invention, it has been found Figure 4 is a View in elevation, looking at the that this difficulty is overcome as the cut outs ll inner side of the front plate constituting the and 12 in the plate 5 and the lining 8, respecpresent invention. tively, accommodate the old or spent filling and I Figure 5 is an elevational view of the front prevent it from being caught between the shutplate, showing the same removed from the lay. tle and the front plate of the shuttle box.

Figure 6 is a view in top plan of the front plate. It is believed that the many advantages of Figure 7 isaview in longitudinal horizontal seca front plate for shuttle boxes constructed in tion, taken substantially on the line 7-7 of Figaccordance with the present invention will be ure 4. readily understood, and although the preferred Figure 8 is a view in vertical transverse section, embodiment of the invention is as illustrated and taken substantially on the line 8-8 of Figure 6. described, it is to be understood that changes in Referring now to the drawings in detail, it will the details of construction and in the combination be seen that the reference numeral 1 designates and arrangement of parts may be resorted to r generally the shuttle box and 2 indicates a conwhich will fall within the scope of the invenventional shuttle having a longitudinal groove 3 tion as claimed. in its forward or front side which accommodates What is claimed is:- the filling. The shuttle box 1 includes the usual 1. A shuttle box plate having an elongated cutpivoted binder 4 engageable with the shuttle 2. out therein and further having openings there- The front plate 5, which constitutes the present in substantially at the ends of the cut-out, a invention, comprises slotted ears 6on its end porlining mounted on the inner side of the plate tions which accommodate bolts '7 for adjustably having an elongated cut-out therein communisecuring said front plate in position on the lay. eating with the first-named cut-out, said out- On the inner side Of the front plate 5 is a lining outs, for the reception of filling, the lining fur- 8 of suitable material, preferably leather, for conther having longitudinally aligned channels 1 tact with the shuttle 2. therein for the reception of the filling, said 3. A shuttle box plate having longitudinally spaced openings therein, a lining mounted on the inner side of the plate and secured, at its ends, to the end portions of said plate, said lining having a longitudinally elongated cut-out therein, integral tabs on the end walls of the cut-out extending thru the openings, and means on the outer side of the plate intermediate the openings for anchoring the free ends of the tabs to the plate.

WILLIE I-I. BINETTE. 

